Can mezcal help you sleep?
Having trouble sleeping, pal? Think twice before you reach for that bottle of mezcal. Or tequila. Or whiskey. Or whatever. It’s a nightcap episode of Agave Road Trip, featuring our Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr, Ryan Aycock, the Cocktail MD! And it’s way better at inducing sleep than alcohol is!
Agave Road Trip is a critically acclaimed, award-winning podcast that helps gringx bartenders better understand agave, agave spirits, and rural Mexico. It’s hosted by Lou Bank and Chava Periban.
Episode Notes
Ghost bottle image stolen from Chema Skandal!
Check out Ryan Aycock’s new book, Simply Cocktails, available in print or as an ebook!
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker gives a ton of information about how and why we sleep. Walker is the director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab.
And check out these studies that Ryan provided:
Alcohol and sleep I: effects on normal sleep
Alcohol disrupts sleep homeostasis
Alcohol and the Sleeping Brain
Alcohol Dependence and its Relationship with Insomnia and Other Sleep Disorders
Late-afternoon ethanol intake affects nocturnal sleep and the sleep EEG in middle-aged men
Alcohol increases sleep apnea and oxygen desaturation in asymptomatic men
Self-evaluations of factors promoting and disturbing sleep: an epidemiological survey in Finland
Ethanol as a hypnotic in insomniacs: self administration and effects on sleep and mood
And National Geographic was so impressed with this episode, they wrote an article about it!